A throwback to summer near the North Pole. Shortly after midnight, we were advised that a polar bear has been sighted. We shot out of bed and dressed in a hurry just in time to see this magnificent majestic creature about to do a plunge. Later I was advised that this bear was thinner than usual
and may not make it through another season. Global warming has shortened their hunting season. The floating icebergs on which they hunt to disappear. It is so sad to think of such magnificient creatures starving.
Part of my photography is to record species in places where they are disappearing or
declining, to preserve their "footprints" on earth, lest we never see them in their natural
surroundings again.
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